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High rates of tumor growth and disease progression detected on serial pretreatment fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography scans in radical radiotherapy candidates with nonsmall cell lung cancer

✍ Sarah Everitt; Alan Herschtal; Jason Callahan; Nikki Plumridge; David Ball; Toma 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 237 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract ## BACKGROUND: The authors studied growth and progression of untreated nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) by comparing diagnostic and radiotherapy (RT) planning fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)‐positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) scans before proposed radical chemo‐RT.